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Find your schedule too full to fit in your regular workout today? Playing on the floor with your kids? Or maybe the only time you have to work out is while the leftovers for dinner are heating up in the microwave. No sweat! You can do this short workout that still packs a burn and even carries your fitness forward.

In teaching boot camp classes, I call this a “Triple Threat”-style circuit. It’s 3 exercises, for 1 minute each, 3 times with minimal pausing. Building up a sweat is inevitable, although, depending on your sweat level, you might be able to skip the shower and save even more time. My 5 month old daughter enjoys it when I incorporate her into this workout.

Circuit Training is great for stimulating the muscles and spiking the heart rate for maximum fat burning effect. So if you are trying to get rid of body fat and generally want to get in shape, a total body circuit workout does just that!

Circuit workouts are high intensity workouts, preforming one exercise after the other with little, or no rest in between. It targets different muscle groups in one workout including core, upper & lower body as well as cardiovascular and resistance training, working on and improving your strength, power and endurance; spiking the heart rate during the workout equals shredded body fat, giving you that toned physique.

The good news keeps getting better every day. Before, just 20 minutes of exercise was proven to burn calories and increase metabolism. Now, a recent study has proven that an intense work out of just 2-3 minutes can burn up to 200 or more calories, thus boosting metabolism throughout the day.

Whenever fast weight loss programs bumps into our conversations, the first thing that comes into our minds are exercises that burns the most calories. Well, can anyone be blamed for looking for the most effective methods to burn those calories instead of beating around the bush? It’s a capital NO!